CM Professionals CMSML Community

STEERING COMMITTEE

Jelle van Egmond (co-ordinator) - jelle at hartman-communicatie.nl
Erik M. Hartman - erik at hartman-communicatie.nl
Geert Jan van Bussel - geertjan at vbds.nl
Bob Doyle (tech support) - editor at cmsreview.com

MEMBERS

Sandi Castle (US) - sandi at siberlogic.com
Paola Di Maio (UK) - editor at content-wire.com
Yalu Tamot (US) - ytamot at d2hawkeye.com
Christian Daems (B) - christian at cms-channel.be
Christoph Schacher (AU) - christoph.schacher at wienerberger.com
Scott Abel (US) - abelsp at netdirect.net
Stan Swaren (US) stan.swaren at rogers.com
Bernard Chester (US) bernard.chester at prodigy.net
Yalu Tamot (US) ytamot at d2hawkeye.com

CURRENT STATUS

The current CMSML release is versie 1.10.
We worked hard on a next release of CMSML. The Dutch government recently adopted this new release. Their overview will be published in October 2006. This will be accompanied by a press release. After that, the new CMSML release (1.20) will be downloadable from this web page.

NEXT STEPS

• a policy on the use and distribution of CMSML;
• incorporate more editor criteria;
• incorporate the facets of the CM Lifecycle Poster;
• a web service for distributing the CMSML data.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

To develop a markup language for describing and classifying the features of a content management system.

SCOPE OF WORK

CMSML.ORG is an outgrowth of a collaboration between OSCOM, the University of Washington iSchool CMS Evaluation Lab, CMS Review, and Hartman Communicatie in the Netherlands.

DELIVERABLES

The main deliverables will be:

• regular updates of the CMSML as an XML Schema Definition (XSD);
• a Request For Chance (RFC);
• an Application Programming Interface (API) for using the XML;
• a revision history.

These deliverables are presented as CM Professionals Resources on the CMS Overview page.

MEETINGS

The next online meeting is scheduled for October 25 or October 27, 2006

Oct. 19, 2006 - Presentation on CMSML at the CMS Congres 2006 in Belgium.
Nov. 8, 2006 - Roundtable on CMSML at cmf2006 in Denmark.

MAILING LIST

The CMSML mailing list is at http://lists.cmsml.org/mailman/listinfo/cmsml.